The John Locke Foundation earns praise in a new report from the Federal Communications Commission. As reported at FutureOfCapitalism.com, the FCC report quotes John Hood. (One inspiring model is the John Locke Foundation, a free-market foundation in North Carolina, which decided that the lack of nonpartisan statehouse reporting was harming the state. John Hood, the president of the Foundation, believes that since the commercial sector will not fill the gaps, foundations and other donors will need play a bigger role: “When you get to the state and local level, the collapse of the traditional business models imperils the delivery of sufficient public interest journalism — and we do believe that donor-driven journalism can be a very important model.”) N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press emails Hood’s columns this week on outside-the-beltline reaction to state government debates, contrasting visions about public education, a spat between N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis and the N.C. Association of Educators, and the battle over a voter identification bill. Silobreaker.com promoted Hood’s column about Gov. Beverly Perdue’s reaction to the recent state budget deal. A letter writer in the Monroe Enquirer-Journal also quoted from a recent Hood column about state education spending. The Franklin Times published readers’ responses to the same column.